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Ecclesiastical and political pragmatism, with a beat
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Bush Should've Called Doug Piranha
In Churchill's England,
they didn't torture Nazi spies, but they knew all the other tricks of the trade
: Sarcasm, bathos, hyperbole, and dramatic irony.
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